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Nikolai Durov

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Nikolai Valeryevich Durov (Russian: Николай Валерьевич Дуров; born 21 November 1980) is a Russian programmer and mathematician. He is the elder brother of Pavel Durov, with whom he founded the social networking site VK and later Telegram Messenger. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2024). Nikolai Durov is the 939th most popular mathematician (up from 983rd in 2024), the 2,447th most popular biography from Russia (up from 2,790th in 2019) and the 67th most popular Russian Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Nikolai Durov ranks 939 out of 1,004. Before him are Carl Pomerance, Antoni Zygmund, Yakov Eliashberg, Poul Heegaard, Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn, and Krystyna Kuperberg. After him are Peter Sarnak, Christopher Zeeman, W. T. Tutte, Ormond Stone, Neil Sloane, and Cleve Moler.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1980, Nikolai Durov ranks 235. Before him are Inma Cuesta, Kiril Lazarov, Luis Scola, Asashōryū Akinori, Richie Faulkner, and Irfaan Ali. After him are Dan Bilzerian, Rodrigo Taddei, Bradley Wiggins, April Bowlby, Karolina Gočeva, and D. J. Cotrona.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Nikolai Durov ranks 2,447 out of 3,761. Before him are Dmitry Nagiyev (1967), Viktor Markin (1957), Pavlo Klimkin (1967), Valeriya Gnarovskaya (1923), Aleksandr Lenyov (1944), and Aleksandras Abišala (1955). After him are Maksim Tarasov (1970), Pavel Datsyuk (1978), Yuri Falin (1937), Vladimir Shadrin (1948), Hilarion (1966), and Evgeny Lovchev (1949).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Russia

Among mathematicians born in Russia, Nikolai Durov ranks 67. Before him are Dmitri Anosov (1936), Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro (1929), Yury Osipov (1936), Anatoly Maltsev (1909), Andrei Okounkov (1969), and Yakov Eliashberg (1946). After him are Alexander Beilinson (1957), Victor Glushkov (1982), Edward Frenkel (1968), and Olga Holtz (1973).

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